Hein Viljoen
Biographic Data
| ID | 9147707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hein Viljoen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hein |
| FAMILY NAME | Viljoen |
| SIGNATURE | VILJOEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Subversion versus Inversion: The Loss of the Carnivalesque in Janet Suzman's The Free State
According to Gilbert and Thompkins (1996: 5), postcolonial drama is aimed at dismantling the hierarchies and determinants that create binary oppositions in postcolonial contexts and – according to Young (2001: 4) – also actively transforming the present “out of the clutches of the past”. This dismantling can, however, only occur when the inevitable ambivalence of postcolonial binaries are taken into account (Gilbert & Thompkins 1996: 6). In her t…
Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries
Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essa…
Story Skills and Hierarchies of Needs and Values: A Defence of the Humanities
This article1 1The article was developed as a thought paper in the NRF's project Shifting Boundaries of Knowledge – The Role of Social Sciences, Law and Humanities. A first version was presented at a regional workshop of the project at Tshwane University of Technology on 28 May 2004. is a defence of the humanities that emphasises the nature and value of humanistic knowledge. I firstly outline the present negative perceptions of the humanities and…
Beyond the Threshold
What happens when we cross a significant boundary? We step into an unsettling in-between zone, where we have to abandon accepted structures and truths. Yet this liminal zone can also open up possibilities for inner transformation, leading to the birth of a new sense of fellowship. Since 1994, South Africans have been experiencing the anxieties of old structures breaking down and of new ones being built – a process that South African authors have …
Portrait of a lady with text: Ina Gräbe
The irreverence of relevance
Since I know virtually nothing about Cervantua and Pantasanchez, Tristan le Fataliste or that great masterwork, Don Simplissimus and his sidekick Fatso Faustus, I shall endeavour to reveal a few things about a place that is neither a Utopia nor a dystopia, neither paradise nor hell, neither above nor below, neither here nor there just a place beyond nowhere, called Azininia. I will make some ludic observations on the country, the identity of its …
“Sondag van ‘n kind” in La caniaanse konteks
This article is a reading of the letter of Opperman's poem “Sondag van ‘n kind” (A child's Sunday) through different convolutions. Firstly I follow a few threads through Lacan's labyrinth. Then I tread Strydom's spoor through the poem, also seeking out the sunken intertext, viz. the Bible. The letter leads us on to Freud's family romance and Girard's mimetic desire and scape‐goating rituals, returning us eventually to Lacan's desire of the Other …
Spieël, kamer van spieëls: Oor Postmodernisme en representasie
This essay tries to define representation in Postmodern texts, departing from the central metaphor of the mirror and the idea of art being a mirror image of nature. Postmodernism has replaced nature by a hyperreality, a procession of simulacra. Representation is, however, extremely ambivalent, oscillating between discovering an essence and obscuring the Truth. Derrida (1982) analyzes representation as the move whereby the Original Full Being send…
Metafore en rame
In this article it is shown by an analysis of “Kaapse skeepswerf” (Cape shipyard) by D.J. Opperman that current theory about metaphor cannot fully account for the contexts of utterances. A top‐down approach using the concept frame from artificial intelligence is proposed instead of the current bottom‐up approach. The A‐frame analysis of Kilpatrick is discussed and evaluated by means of an analysis of the poem "Sweef” (Hovering) by T.T. Cloete
‘Vakansiebrief ‐ ‘n dekonstruksie‐/dekonstruktiewe lesing
This is a demonstration of a possible deconstructive reading rather than a theoretical introduction to deconstruction. Following the reading of A. P. Grové (1965) further oppositions in D. J. Opperman's poem ‘Vakansiebrief ('Letter while on holiday') are analyzed, oppositions like birth/death, speech/writing. In the end a latent fear of silence, of not being able to write, is discovered in the poem
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‘Vakansiebrief ‐ ‘n dekonstruksie‐/dekonstruktiewe lesing
This is a demonstration of a possible deconstructive reading rather than a theoretical introduction to deconstruction. Following the reading of A. P. Grové (1965) further oppositions in D. J. Opperman's poem ‘Vakansiebrief ('Letter while on holiday') are analyzed, oppositions like birth/death, speech/writing. In the end a latent fear of silence, of not being able to write, is discovered in the poem
Metafore en rame
In this article it is shown by an analysis of “Kaapse skeepswerf” (Cape shipyard) by D.J. Opperman that current theory about metaphor cannot fully account for the contexts of utterances. A top‐down approach using the concept frame from artificial intelligence is proposed instead of the current bottom‐up approach. The A‐frame analysis of Kilpatrick is discussed and evaluated by means of an analysis of the poem "Sweef” (Hovering) by T.T. Cloete
Spieël, kamer van spieëls: Oor Postmodernisme en representasie
This essay tries to define representation in Postmodern texts, departing from the central metaphor of the mirror and the idea of art being a mirror image of nature. Postmodernism has replaced nature by a hyperreality, a procession of simulacra. Representation is, however, extremely ambivalent, oscillating between discovering an essence and obscuring the Truth. Derrida (1982) analyzes representation as the move whereby the Original Full Being send…
“Sondag van ‘n kind” in La caniaanse konteks
This article is a reading of the letter of Opperman's poem “Sondag van ‘n kind” (A child's Sunday) through different convolutions. Firstly I follow a few threads through Lacan's labyrinth. Then I tread Strydom's spoor through the poem, also seeking out the sunken intertext, viz. the Bible. The letter leads us on to Freud's family romance and Girard's mimetic desire and scape‐goating rituals, returning us eventually to Lacan's desire of the Other …
The irreverence of relevance
Since I know virtually nothing about Cervantua and Pantasanchez, Tristan le Fataliste or that great masterwork, Don Simplissimus and his sidekick Fatso Faustus, I shall endeavour to reveal a few things about a place that is neither a Utopia nor a dystopia, neither paradise nor hell, neither above nor below, neither here nor there just a place beyond nowhere, called Azininia. I will make some ludic observations on the country, the identity of its …
Portrait of a lady with text: Ina Gräbe
Beyond the Threshold
What happens when we cross a significant boundary? We step into an unsettling in-between zone, where we have to abandon accepted structures and truths. Yet this liminal zone can also open up possibilities for inner transformation, leading to the birth of a new sense of fellowship. Since 1994, South Africans have been experiencing the anxieties of old structures breaking down and of new ones being built – a process that South African authors have …
Story Skills and Hierarchies of Needs and Values: A Defence of the Humanities
This article1 1The article was developed as a thought paper in the NRF's project Shifting Boundaries of Knowledge – The Role of Social Sciences, Law and Humanities. A first version was presented at a regional workshop of the project at Tshwane University of Technology on 28 May 2004. is a defence of the humanities that emphasises the nature and value of humanistic knowledge. I firstly outline the present negative perceptions of the humanities and…
Subversion versus Inversion: The Loss of the Carnivalesque in Janet Suzman's The Free State
According to Gilbert and Thompkins (1996: 5), postcolonial drama is aimed at dismantling the hierarchies and determinants that create binary oppositions in postcolonial contexts and – according to Young (2001: 4) – also actively transforming the present “out of the clutches of the past”. This dismantling can, however, only occur when the inevitable ambivalence of postcolonial binaries are taken into account (Gilbert & Thompkins 1996: 6). In her t…
Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries
Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essa…
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